Детство Гамлета
2007 release ** "The musicians themselves say that this album reveals the band's sound at most. They have used their classical instruments: guitar, bass, bayan (accordion), violin, keyboards and human voices. For the first time here's female voice - of Larisa Archipetskaya - "precticing witch in third generation" - as the musicians say. Guest appearances also include Anthesteria, Misery and Wolfsblood. The new album emphasizes the emotional saturation, it immerses the listener in melancholy and …
Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star
2008 release ** "Human Greed lie somewhere between the gorgeous drones of Stars of the Lid and the haunting and solemn “Symphony No. 3” by Henryk Górecki… This is powerful stuff and takes a while to fully digest it. The oily darkness that the music conjures up gets deeper and deeper with every listen, a resonant and otherworldly tremor that is at once human and sublime."
Punkt
2003 release ** "Red Shift fuses blistering hypnotic break beats with dark atmospheric sound textures and derives its inspiration from the images of distant galaxies and planets captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaginings of distant space are counterbalanced by the gritty reality of living and creating in the dense urban environment of London and the impact this has on everyday aural experiences. Beats and breaks are constructed individually and meticulously in the break beat science styl…
Red Shift
2003 release ** "Red Shift fuses blistering hypnotic break beats with dark atmospheric sound textures and derives its inspiration from the images of distant galaxies and planets captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaginings of distant space are counterbalanced by the gritty reality of living and creating in the dense urban environment of London and the impact this has on everyday aural experiences. Beats and breaks are constructed individually and meticulously in the break beat science styl…
Repetition Hymns
2025 stock Past Inside The Present is pleased to announce Repetition Hymns, a double album from the enigmatic Black Swan. Comprised of 19 vignettes, the relatively short tracks impart a strong forward momentum despite the 80-minute runtime. Repetition Hymns is thus particularly well-suited to the temporal distortion of quarantine, in which each day feels like an endless repeating loop. Our bleeding hearts are in need of drone like never before. In the decade since the release of In 8 Movements, …
From The End Of Time
Across the entirety of From the End of Time, the new album by Black Swan, an eerily desolate wind forms the base layer for swells of disembodied choirs, haunting piano, mangled tapes, and scores of other unplaceable, vividly textured sounds. According to the artist, its environment “is meant to evoke the aftermath of a collapsed society,” but does so while pulling every possible vestige of beauty from the ruins, with the reverent melancholy of a classical requiem.
Like previous album Ghost (2024…
In Darkness Let Me Dwell
"It’s a lovely album, best played at the end of the day; the lights are still out when the day turns into evening, and darkness slowly falls". - Vital Weekly
Raspad
*50 hand-numbered copies* Raspad is the debut cassette by Lisa Viktorova (wjerstean), an artist living in Armenia since 2022. Darkly unsettling yet profoundly intimate, this album resists easy genre definitions. Born out of a time of legal persecution, it weaves together reflections on a tangled reality shaped by ongoing war and an elusive, uncertain future. Through her project, Lisa explores the interplay between the explicit and the hidden, between words and phonemes, between sound and speech.…
Nil Desperandum
2008 release ** Packaged in an A5–sized glossy digipak. "The third and the most complete release by one of the most tallented ambient artists hailing from Poland these days. Unifying vast array of elements, Per Aspera once again achieves remarkably introvert but vibrant style. Eerie industrial atmosphere seamlessly blends with serene harmonies of almost orchestral form. Cinematic, monstrous drone formations morph into pulsating abyss of dissonant disturbances and uncompromised sonic experiments,…
The Myth Of Meat
2008 release ** "Schloss Tegal's The Myth of Meat is an intense exploration of the darker aspects of human nature, released on the band's own Tegal Records label. This sonic experience delves deep into the themes of cannibalism and meat consumption, using them as metaphors to reflect the violent tendencies of the human race. The album's unsettling atmosphere pushes the boundaries of dark ambient and industrial music, creating a visceral and unnerving soundscape. With disturbing imagery and extr…
Hidden World
The project investigates the cultural environment of Bulgarian society, thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; from the emergence of organized crime in the 1990s to the appropriation of its behavior by political elite, celebrities and cultural icons. It explore the social imaginary and the collective identity of the generation that grew up during the period of democratic transition; a troubling context where the corruption, male chauvinism and hyper femininity have become a symbols of f…
Banderlogos
*2025 stock. 30 copies limited edition* Split 7" from two legends of experimental music, super-hq lathe cut with shaped labels, printed fold-over cover, inner and outer sleeve, hand-numbered on the inside.
Banned Attachment Contained / Microagression
*20 copies limited edition* Produced in Berlin thanks to the prayers of everyone involved.
JCDecaux
*24 copies limited edition* JCDecaux consists of Jaco Sette and Ethan Lambeau. Sophie Valera-Garcia (synth, whistles) contributed to tracks 2.7, 14.8, and 16.8.
Whispers From The Ashes
2004 release ** "Ideally inspired by the Inquisition era, like some titles of the tracks may suggest, "Whispers from the Ashes" presents Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) and Nefelheim joined together for the production of a dark oriented CD that alternates obscure and haunting atmospheres with more gloomy and sometimes dramatic and highly evocative episodes... In a blend of low frequences, metallic sounds, echoes of distant voices and human screams, whispers, concrete noises, ritual processions, sudde…
О Происхождении Мира
2006 release ** "Fourth official work of this Russian dark-folk band. A symbiosis of classic European dark-folk and dark-ambient. Unhurried guitar fingerings and piercing alto interwoven with dark drones. Doomed and furious voice declaiming about the origin of the world. Music for thoughtful listening.."
The Wondrous Journey Through The Catacombs Of Life
2009 release ** "The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge (2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism, absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical considerations in terms of the composition.Linking to…
Opus Tartari
2011 release ** "'Opus Tartari' is the latest album of Italian dark ambient project which - in its leader's own words - after years of esoteric and alchemist studies decided to transfer his own experiences into music. Ouroboros should be then treated as a medium used in search for its own philosophical stone. Compositions included on the album lead the listener into the world of antique and medieval times due to their tunes and the singing in Latin. Mystical, slightly sacral character of the tra…
Avatars Of Rape And Rage
2008 release ** "Avant garde noise with SM attitude"
Laudanum
2007 release ** "An eerie and dark ambient musical project. This is the only album they ever released. All manipulations were created live and recorded to one single track."